The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1887-05-13
DR., Ward closes his splcudid defense by

DR.. Ward closes his splendid defense by
saying
'Docs this order of men spring from a
race Of idlers whose energies have been
emasculatcd by the curse of slavery. Y
Let Southern parents look
to the education of their boys, and act
with circumSpcction when the friends of
education come to us bearing gifts in
the shape of cndowmcnts for Southern
Universities, where the boys arc to be
taught to forget history and blush for
the character ami deeds of their ances :
tors
That's it; that's it exactly, that's what
L have been thinking for 10 these many
years, and what | have been trying to say,
but no man has ever said it as we'll as d..
Ward. l know him personally, and was
his guest at Winona, Mississippi. I felt
that 1 was communiug with thinker, a
philosopher, a Southerne- Of the old school
type of the grand men that the old
South produced and the new South will
not produce and cannot produce. affirm
this humbly, conscientiously and with
iaith-reluctant faith-that our present
methods, will not and cannot produce as
grand and noble men as the last half GEN.
tury before the war produced. I do not
mix it with the slavery question, but with
other questions more radically significant.
have only copied a scrap from DR..
Wards defence of the old South, her men
and measures, her patriotism, her integ-
rity, her craftsmanship, but if l had my
way would have it published as classic
and have it planted in evory school and
college in the South as an authority not
to DO questioned. I say to my children ::
:Ihere is no faint upon your ancestry.
There was no curse iu slavery. Harriet
Beecher Stowe wrote a romantic lio and
the whole fanatical crew rcvelled in slavery
but slavery had its day aud served its
purpose. Its time was ont-let it be out.
We are glad of it if it was the will of
Providence, but be careful lest worse
evil befall US. Let us fostiry aud cn,rouch
against the love Of money, which the Bible
tells US is the loot of all OWL
We want no more slavery. IL had its
mission, not its sin nor its curse, but its
mission both to white and to black, and
VIC are content.
Here are whole lot of fools who strut
around on spectators money and say let
the old South alone, she's dead dog and
siuks. l heard boatcd bondholder say
that not long ago, and in the same con-
versation he Dragged about painting he
bought at Stuart's sale, and said it was
300 years old. We will talk about the
old South just as much as we please, and
no man shall make US afraid. We love
old things, anyhow. They arc the best.
The poet says:
4 love it, l love it, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm chair
There is Old Hundred and Old Lang
Syne, and here are the old trees and the
old landmarks and the old men and old
women with good old honest habits and
limited desires, who indulge in no folly
and banker after no big thing, but live
calm and serene and coyet nothing but
the happiness Of their children. 1 sec
that Mr. Barnett has presented shingle
that is hundred years old to the agricul-
tural department. expect it padded
his grandfather, and ia therefore sacred
relic Of the old South. The new South
don't paddle much. But the school
teachers do thrash around some in these
parts. Carl was telling ME to-day how
the teacher whipped one OF the boys yes
terday Il tell you what, papa, that boy
got lor,y-nine lcks, for counted 'em, and
he never blinked nor wnkcd, and set down
laughing why, he is tough one
said |, 'hc must have hide like an alliga-
tor NO, sir said Carl, but he had on
big, loose jeans coat; and he held back his
shoulders SO that tho coat never touched
him, and nothing got a whipping but the
coat. Smart boys these days, and shifty.
The old South may whip, but the new
South knows how to dodge.
BILL ARP.
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